Like many educators, the subject of school comes up in conversation in all kinds of settings. Recently, I was sitting at a wedding reception, enjoying the blissful scene of the newly-married couple showing off their tutored first dance when my cousin-in-law’s wife sat beside me. It wasn’t long before the subject of conversation turned to […]
By using multiple sources of data Google is able to provide more engaging and usable results…what if schools and teachers operated similarly?
Now that we have Next Generation Science Standards, is there any intersection with the Mathematics and English Language Arts Common Core Standards ?
Since it’s not always possible to visit museums, I’ve been looking at online resources for viewing and interacting with art and artists appropriate for use in the classroom.
As part of Artful Reading, students and teachers are learning about creating, responding and producing works of art. Here’s what happened in one classroom focused on the visual arts.
The obvious way that the pieces connect and depend on each other suggests that when we dissect effective teaching for the sake of improving, we need to spend time on putting it all together again in a way that works for students.
Rigor is a word that gets thrown around in meetings, planning documents and social media amongst educators. But what exactly is rigor? Too often we mistake rigor for “more difficult” and while we want to challenge our students we don’t want that challenge to be deadly..
